Croatian Liberation Movement

The Croatian Liberation Movement (HOP) was a fascist political party in Croatia that was founded on 8 June 1956 by former Ustase leader Ante Pavelic, who was in exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the time of the HOP's foundation. Until the 1970s, the HOP was a Croatian emigrant organization, and 80% of its members had formerly been involved in some way with the Independent State of Croatia. The party sought to re-establish the Independent State of Croatia within its World War II-era boundaries, and it described itself as an anti-communist organization committed to democratic political means. Following the collapse of communism in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the HOP moved its main base from Buenos Aires to the Croatian capital of Zagreb. It became a minor party in Croatia, lacking representation in either the government or any other level, and it also had branches in Canada and Australia.